The College
of Wooster
Private College in Wooster, OH. Six-year graduation rate 74%. Median 10-year earnings $59,629.
Ten years after entry, the median The College of Wooster student earns $59,629 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. The six-year graduation rate of 74% is well above average and the clearest sign this school holds onto its students. Median debt at graduation is $26,500, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 0.7 — limited economic uplift documented
Admissions
Selectivity is real here: only 60% of applicants are offered a place. 5,473 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Only 11% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. 25% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score. The bands below describe the middle half of that group, not of the class.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | 630–740 | 92 (25%) |
| SAT Math | 590–720 | |
| ACT Composite | 27–33 | 81 (22%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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74% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. First-year retention of 82% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. At 10:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. At 1,876 undergraduates, expect a small, closely-held student body.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,876 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $28,004 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $12,512 while those at $110k+ pay $32,223. Grant aid is widespread — 98% of students receive it, averaging $42,995. Federal borrowing reaches 45% of students.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 452 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $12,512 |
| $30–48k | $14,032 |
| $48–75k | $17,941 |
| $75–110k | $26,165 |
| $110k+ | $32,223 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 838 of these 1,876 students, totalling $5,300,877 — an average of $6,326 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Wayne County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)